He contends that Jesus being crucified “in the middle” between two thieves in John 19:18 means that “If you’re looking for the real Jesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan ...

The thief on the cross next to Jesus waited in suffering for the promise of paradise. So do many of us. When readers thumb through their Bibles for examples of courage, few consider flipping to ...

This time he calls upon the tale of the thieves on the cross: Both mocked Jesus, but one repented, receiving last-minute salvation before being crucified. The rapper knows what it means to see ...

There’s a moment in *Heaven, How I Got Here* that absolutely guts you. It’s the moment when the thief realizes how close he came to missing everything. He was right there. Just a few feet from ...

Even on the cross, Luke presents Jesus with two thieves, one of them a righteous penitent criminal. The innocent one, Jesus, was crucified among the guilty and the righteous. Jesus was not alone ...

The second word from the cross, the second time Jesus speaks from the cross, he promises paradise to the Good Thief, the one we call St. Dismas. It is astonishing to consider that, on that first ...